Transcript The digital special library

The digital special library
Conference arranged by Save the
Children Sweden and World Library
Stockholm Feb 11 2009
Jan Szczepanski
THE ROLE AND POSSIBILITIES OF LIBRARIES
IN THE DIGITAL ERA
• Chief librarian University of Gothenburg
library
• Has compiled an impressive list of Open
Access sources
• Advocate Open Access issues among
Swedish librarians very actively
Arwid Lund
DIGITAL PUBLICATION IN GLOBALARKIVET.SE ;
TO TEACH COPYRIGHT , CHOSE LICENSES AND DEVELOP
SOCIAL MODELS OF COOPERATION
• Librarian Världsbiblioteket, project leader
for www.globalarkivet.se open archive
initiative for NGO material.
• Discussion of broken links, copyright,
general goods and promoting use of
Creative Commons licenses
Inga-Lill Blomqvist
PRACTICAL WORK AND DEVELOPMENT POSSIBILITES
FOR THE ASIA-PORTAL,
RESEARCHERS ATTITUDES AND PREFERENCES
• Librarian, Nordic Institute of Asian Studies
(NIAS) in Copenhagen. responsible
webmaster for the Asia portal
www.nias.ku.dk
Barha Community
NNC declaration on Open Access
•
Joining (if not already signatories) the 240 international academic and other
bodies as signatories to the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to
Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities
•
Undertaking to create institutional Open Access repositories in line with
international standards and in co-operation with the relevant national
archives
•
Reviewing relevant intellectual property, staff evaluation and funding policies
and practices in order to:
– Encourage, and where practical mandate, research staff to deposit copies of
their outputs (articles, reports, conferences papers, etc) in Open Access
repositories
– Encourage and support research staff to publish in Open Access journals and
publications
– Promoting the creation and use of peer reviewed Open Access journals in their
relevant fields of study
Aina Svensson
OPEN ACCESS AT SWEDISH HIGHER EDUCATION
-COOPERATION, SUCCESS AND CHALLENGES
• Librarian, Uppsala University Library and
coordinator working group for Open
Access of e-publishing at swedish
universities
Today?
33 higher educations using e-publicing
Most of these have open archives offering
possibilities of e-publishing and bibliographic
reports.
DiVA (20)
Dspace (4)
Eprints (1)
Pure (1)
Different In-house developed systems (5)
Webbpage/library catalogue (2)
Why publishing in an open archive?
Webbstatistics from DiVA Uppsala
Content aproximately 4000 theses in fulltext:
Downloads total: 972 330
Searched from? Google etc. 70 %
From? USA, Sweden, Europe
Uppsök –
National search service for
Student papers and
diploma work
48 016 uppsatser
SwePub – Searchservice for swedish research publications
Through LIBRIS, autumn 2009
Open Access information
Fritt att ladda
ner och använda!
www.searchguide.se/oa/eng/
Birgitta Hellmark Lindgren
FROM OUT OF PRINT TO ETERNAL ACCESS?- NAI EXPERIENCES ON THE ROAD FROM
SELLING PRINT PUBLICATIONS TO OFFERING
ELECTRONIC OPEN ACCESS-PUBLICATIONS
Head of publication department at Nordic
Africa Institute
New publishing strategy
• Co-publish anthologies and monographs with
external actors (not in house)
• Continue to produce CAI, PD, PN, DP in house
• Electronic publishing as default - linked to POD
• Electronic publishing in DiVA instead of NAI
website
• Discontinue the sales of books from NAI
• Discontinue marketing from NAI
Increased downloading
2006
2007
4.400
11.213
Electronic down loads per month
2.600
Visits to NAI website per month
(measured in page loads)
60.800 87.900 327.550
Visits to the start page per month
(measured in page loads)
7.600
2015-07-17
2008
27.600 52.890
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Åsa Lund Moberg
AFRICAN DIGITAL RESOURCES – FOR HOW LONG
WILL THEY LAST?
Library Director of Nordic Africa Institute
• Overview of present disussion of the
digital divide;
• North-south flow of resources. Project
finances by Development aid not
sustainable
Where do we go from here?
- final discussion
• Participants expressed that they had got new
knowledge, inspiration and ideas on how to
move on with these issues.
• - Interest in common competence development
• - planning of workshops
• -cooperation on exchange of resources, e.g.
child protection
• -Public libraries interested to learn more about
open access resources